 most of them. It is ill, that men should kill one another in seditions, tumults, and wars; but it is worse, to bring nations to such misery, weakness, and baseness, as to have neither strength nor courage to contend for any thing; to have left nothing...  Discourses on Government - Page 291by Algernon Sidney - 1805Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Towers - 1796 - 474 pages
...* * t • * bring nations to fuch mifery, weaknefs, * and bafenefs, as to have neither ftrength, * nor courage to contend for any thing; to ' have left...worth defending, and ' to give the name of peace to defolation. * I take Greece to have been happy and VOL. I. E glorious, * glorious, when it was full... | |
 | Great Britain - 1822 - 576 pages
...slightest reference to the present times, but to preserve the recollection of wholesome truths:—" "Tis ill that men should kill one another in seditions, tumults, and wars ; but 'tis worse to bring nations to such misery, weakness, and baseness, as to have neither strength nor... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 572 pages
...slightest reference to the present times, but to preserve the recollection of wholesome truths:—"'Tis ill that men should kill one another in seditions, tumults, and wars ; but 'tis worse to bring nations to such misery, weakness, and baseness, as to have neither strength nor... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1874 - 194 pages
...though such as will more ly find their place in a note than in the text. "Tis ill,' he goes on to say, ' that men should kill one another in seditions, tumults, and wars; but 'tis worse to bring nations to such misery, weakness and baseness as to have neither strength nor courage... | |
 | Scott A. Nelson - Political Science - 1993 - 188 pages
...cruel. But though these are terrible scourges, I deny that Government to be simply the worst that has most of them. [It] is ill that men should kill one...to have neither strength nor courage to contend for anything; to have nothing left worth defending, and to give the name of peace to desolation. 33 He... | |
 | James Conniff - Political Science - 1994 - 384 pages
...endorsements of a right of revolution. There are, according to Sidney, things far worse that Civil War: “it is worse, to bring nations to such misery, weakness,...defending, and to give the name of peace to desolation.” Vol. II, p. 300. 120. William Atwood, The Fundamental Constitution of the English Government, Scholarly... | |
 | Andrew Lintott - History - 1999 - 313 pages
...slaughter, though terrible scourges, do not necessarily imply the existence of the worst form of government. 'It is ill that men should kill one another in seditions,...to have neither strength nor courage to contend for anything.' Sidney then contrasts ancient and modern Greece to the former's advantage and follows the... | |
 | Jonathan Scott - History - 2000 - 564 pages
...howling of wolves'. 'Such peace is no more to be commended, than that which men have in the grave': It is ill, that men should kill one another in seditions,...to have neither strength nor courage to contend for anything; to have nothing left worth defending, and to give the name of peace to desolation. 73 There... | |
 | Martin van Gelderen, Quentin Skinner - Political Science - 2002 - 440 pages
...fundamentals, rather than particulars, and did so in a classical republican direction. Sidney explained: It is ill, that men should kill one another in seditions,...and wars; but it is worse, to bring nations to such weakness, misery and baseness, as to have neither strength nor courage to contend for anything; to... | |
 | Martin van Gelderen, Quentin Skinner - History - 2002 - 440 pages
...understanding of peace in terms highly reminiscent of those of Sidney later against Filmer. Sidney explained: It is ill, that men should kill one another in seditions,...and wars; but it is worse, to bring nations to such weakness, misery and baseness, as to have neither strength nor courage to contend for anything; to... | |
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